... Arkansas' uninsured rate at 17.5 percent over a three-year span, compared to the national rate of 15.4 percent. Rich Huddleston, executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, said children remain hard-hit by a lack of ...

... casino argument, while it's something that needs to be talked about, is not the major issue in this debate," said Rich Huddleston, director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, which argues that a lottery would hurt low-income families ...

... high-wage jobs for the very richest in the state. But for middle income jobs, we've not done so well," said Rich Huddleston, research director for Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. The report, which among other things analyzes ...

... of sloppy," said Amy Rossi, executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in Little Rock. Rich Huddleston, research director for Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, said the study could lead people to conclude ...

... ourselves and the public that this bill is going to get rid of the sales tax on food anytime soon, because it's not," Rich Huddleston, research director for Arkansas Advocates for Children and families, told the Senate tax committee. That would ...

... make everybody pay their fair share, including upper-income Arkansans," Arkansas Advocates Executive Director Rich Huddleston said. "Keeping the surcharge would be the first step among those options." Lawmakers adopted the surcharge in ...

... K-12, and our heads are stuck in the sand. In the halls of the state Capitol the other morning, I encountered Rich Huddleston, who runs the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. I asked him how funding was coming for the expansion ...

... those cases where siblings weren't placed together, the recommended biweekly visits usually didn't take place. Rich Huddleston, executive director of Arkansas Advocates, said, "We can't just do drive-by home visits and expect families ...

... losing another generation of kids who are going to fall through the system and not get the services they need," Rich Huddleston, the group's executive director, said Tuesday. Last year's report said the system was amid a "staffing crisis ...

... children in the state has dropped from nearly 150,000 to about 70,200 since the program went into effect, said Rich Huddleston, executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, which first conceived the program. "I think ...